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Published on 08/11/2025 – 9:47 GMT+1 •Updated 9:58 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country has received an exemption from US sanctions on Russian energy after a meeting in the White House with President Donald Trump on Friday. Trump granted Budapest an allowance that will keep Russian oil and gas flowing to Hungary in a sign of the close affinity between the two leaders. Orbán, a longtime Trump ally, had come to Washington seeking to convince the US president to allow landlocked Hungary to continue importing Russian oil and gas without being subject to sanctions Trump’s administration has placed…
Vendredi soir, alors que la nomination du nouveau Premier ministre se fait attendre, Emmanuel Macron décroche son téléphone. Il appelle Bruno Retailleau, pour tenter de le convaincre une dernière fois. Oct 13 6 mins read
By Sertac Aktan with AP Published on 09/11/2025 – 16:18 GMT+1 Ahead of this week’s parliamentary election in Iraq, members of Iraqi security forces and displaced people living in camps cast their ballots on Sunday in early voting. An estimated 1.3 million army and security personnel and around 26,000 displaced people are eligible to vote. 7,744 candidates are competing in the election, most of them from parties largely aligned with sectarian interests. Election day is set for Tuesday. The election, which will help determine whether Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani gets a second term, comes against the backdrop of fears of another…
By Esmira Aliyeva Published on 09/11/2025 – 15:54 GMT+1 The Baku International Arts Festival (BIAF) enters its second weekend with a programme full of diverse stage performances. BIAF features international stars of theatre, music, dance, and opera, along with unique collaborations, premieres, and ethnic projects. The Oscar-winning art director Tim Yip, best known for his work on the film ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, has contributed to much excitement around the city by creating a set design for Igor Stravinsky’s world-renowned masterpiece The Rite of Spring, which is interpreted by the celebrated Chinese choreographer Yang Liping. Song for my father The festival…
“We lost everything we were restoring 24 hours a day! Every time the enemy strikes even more brutally, even more cynically,” the operator said in a post on Facebook. The company scheduled power cuts that can last up to 16 hours in some regions, as it works to repair the power supply. “Emergency power cuts have been introduced in a number of regions of Ukraine,” Energy Minister Svitlana Vasylivna Hrynchuk said on Telegram. They “will be canceled after the situation in the power system stabilizes.” The main targets of the attack were the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions, according to…
Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday, knocking down power and forcing the evacuation of nearly a million people. Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. issued warning to many people in affected areas, urging them to evacuate to safety from high-risk villages before it’s too late. Fung-wong, which could cover two-thirds of the Southeast Asian archipelagic nation of more than 7,600 islands, with its 1,600-kilometer-wide rain and wind span, approaching from the Pacific while the Philippines was still reeling from the devastation caused by…
China suspended a ban on exporting some dual-use materials to the U.S., the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced on Sunday, following the easing of trade tensions between the two sides. The move covers exports of gallium, germanium and antimony, which are used in the production of advanced semiconductors used in smartphones and computing. The materials are also used in military technologies such as electronic warfare and surveillance systems, and, in the case of antimony, also missile systems and ammunition. Beijing suspended a measure introduced last year that restricted exports of those materials and imposed stricter checks on dual-use items that…
Published on 09/11/2025 – 9:37 GMT+1 Conservative politician Rodrigo Paz was sworn in as Bolivia’s new president on Saturday, ushering in a new era for the Andean nation after nearly 20 years of one-party rule. Paz took the oath of office before lawmakers and foreign leaders, raising his right hand before a Bible and a cross. “God, country, and family, I do swear,” he said before receiving the presidential sash and medals. The inauguration of Paz, 58, has generated anticipation among Bolivians weary of the severe fuel shortages and high food prices that have come to characterise the country’s worst…
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The European Commission is struggling to overcome concerns about the financial and legal risks the move could entail, especially from Belgium, where most of the frozen assets are housed. A meeting between EU and Belgian officials failed to find a deal on Friday, Euronews reported. Views on whether the funds should be used for military costs also vary across the bloc. Slovakia’s Fico has a track record of opposing the EU’s moves against Moscow and taking advantage of the leverage. He has threatened many times to block EU sanctions against Russia, trading his potential veto for concessions on other issues.…